Efforts to beautify downtown Haines are coming together to give Main Street a facelift before the beginning of tourist season.

In addition to art installations in seven Howsers windows, displays commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Alaska Marine Highway will be mounted in windows of the Coliseum Theater building and at the ferry terminal in the coming weeks.

Renovation of the Rusty Compass Coffeehouse (the historic Pryor Drug building) also began this week, and will restore…